WaveLab 4.0x
21/07/2003
This is a minor update to fix a
couple of issues found in 4.01a.
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Main changes
o Mpeg Layer 2 encoding dialog: there is a new option “Encode peaks”. This
needs to be checked for compatibility with certain systems (e.g. DIGAS)
o Label Printer: the option “Calibrate printer” did not work.
o VST path preferences are now saved (preference dialog)
o Updated Lame MP3 encoder version
o Improved compatibility with the opening of MP2 and MP3 files.
o FreeDB: now if there is no internet connection, the Windows file
“CdPlayer.ini” is read, in case the CD is already registered in that file.
o Presets for Firium plugins would not be saved properly.
o A rare problem problem with the FFT meter display.
o Audio Montage render dialog: the option “Open as new Audio Montage”
could not be unchecked sometimes.
o Audio Montage: some key shortcuts would not work sometimes.
o Audio Montage: the key shortcut for “Zoom out tracks” has been changed
to “Control + Shift + L” (before it was “Shift + L”)
o WAV File attribute format: the small “time button” now takes into
account the time zone.
30/06/2003
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New features
o o WaveLab is now an
automation server providing scripting support for audio file processing
and file format conversion, batch processing, playback, recording. Scripting
allows you to remotely control these WaveLab functions, to automate
repetitive tasks and optimize your workflow. In more technical terms, WaveLab
provides a "COM" interface with a high-level API (Application
Programming Interface). This API allows you to write scripts (VBScripts,
JScripts) or C++ applications, to call some WaveLab functions. Our approach is
to offer control over few but simple and powerful functions. This API will
first of all be of interest for studios and structures dealing with large sets
of files and needing automation. The API will be extended in the future
according to user requests. For details, see the document "WaveLab
Scripting.pdf" in the WaveLab\Scripting\ folder. Don’t misunderstand this
feature with a “macro system”.
o AES-31 support: 1) import (an Audio Montage gets created), eg. use this to import a
Nuendo project. AES-31. 2) Export (menu File / Save special), with several
output options. Use Nuendo 2.0 rather than Nuendo 1.6, because of the improved
AES31 implementation. With
Nuendo 2.0, you can create markers that will be interpreted as WaveLab specific
markers when exporting a AES31 project, this by adding some special
keywords to the marker name (note: you have to create a marker track
in Nuendo). Like this: CD track start marker -> "[t-start]";
CD track end marker -> "[t-end]"; CD track splice marker ->
"[t-splice]"; CD track index marker -> "[t-index]";
examples of valid marker names: "Hello [t-start]"; "This is
[t-end] the end"; "[t-splice] Bye". When importing the names,
WaveLab remove the codes when displaying the markers ("[t-start]",
etc.). WaveLab will export the markers with the same convention (imported back
to Nuendo). In other words, it is possible to design a project almost ready to
burn by creating the proper markers in Nuendo.
o Audio Error Detection and
Correction tool (menu Analysis). This functions allows to scan
a file for errors, to mark them, and to optionally repair them.
o Support for ShuttleProtm. Load the supplied
WaveLab ShuttlePro preference file (Tools folder) and then enjoy the jog and
shuttle capabilities (we recall that F10 must be pressed to activate the jog
and shuttle mode in WaveLab). When the jog and shuttle mode is activated,
pressing the Space bar has now for effect to immediately stop playback at the
hot point. Finally, an ASIO driver will a rather small latency will give better
results. Other pre-programmed ShuttlePro buttons: zoom in/out, undo/redo,
start/stop playback, play selection, toggle loop mode, toggle Jog & Shuttle
Mode, Open file, save as.
o Extended File format support: now WaveLab can save in all available file format from all places
(recording, CD grabbing, render, batch, etc…). You will find a new file format
dialog in all these places. It is important to note that Resampling and Mixing
(proposed in this dialog) happen as the very last step of the rendering chain,
after the Master Section processing. For this reason, for high-quality
mastering, it is not advised to use these options which are primarily intended
to facilitate certains works. For Mastering, use the Resampler plugin and mix
options from the Master Section, followed by a dithering process.
o MPEG Layer 2 support: WaveLab can now read and write
this type of file (also called musicam files). It is possible to create raw
mpeg files, or RIFF wrapped files (files with a .wav extension, compliant with
the Broadcast Wave Format).
o Windows Media 9: WaveLab now supports the full set of Windows Media Encoders 9
(import/export). Of course, Windows Media Player 9 must be installed for this.
o Vorbis Ogg file support (import/export).
o ADPCM file format support (Dialogic and Microsoft)
o ASCII/Excel file format support. There are two purposes for this: to
import specially generated waveforms, created eg. in Excel (educational and
experimental purposes). To visualize (and possibly edit) any sample v alue, in text form (eg. in Excel). These files
are not compact: avoid creating huge ones. Note: when using 32 bif float files,
the format is not 100% lossless because it is not possible to express a binary
floating point value in textual decimal form without a very small
precision loss.
o Updated version of MP3’s Lame encoder (v3.93.1).
o MP3 files can now be created with a RIFF header (that is, a file with a
.wav extension).
o MP3 and WMA Tags: there is now an option to automatically set the “title
tag” as the file name.
o Header-less PCM files can now be created.
o Audio-CD grabbing: CD-Text can
now be imported. CD-Text is also carried over MP3/WMA tags if
saving in these formats.
o Audio-CD grabbing : it is
now possible to grab the entire CD, ie. including audio in pauses and all
sub-indexes. Use the “Convert to Audio Montage” or “Create
Cue-sheet” functions for this. This function currently only works with Plextor
drives, as far as we could test. Only Plextor supports correctly the official
command set for this function. Since Plextor drives are from far the most
widely used drives among professionals, we decided not to spend the time to
support various specific methods of other manufacturers, at least for the time
being.
o Audio-CD grabbing : new function to save the CD as a WAV image with
a cuesheet file (.cue file).
o Audio-CD grabbing : the automatic renaming of tracks has changed
behaviour: track numbers are added as before but the original track names are
preserved.
o Audio-CD grabbing : options to automatically read the ISRC codes
and CD-Text, each time a CD is inserted (or the Refresh function called).
o Audio-CD grabbing : it is now possible to define some pre-roll /
post-roll values. When grabbing individual whole tracks from a CD, WaveLab will
be able to read a bit before the track, and a bit after. Since positioning on a
CD is only accurate to 1 or 2 CD frames, this allows to grab for sure a whole
track.
o Audio-CD grabbing : CDDB track recognition has been replaced with
the FREEDB system. About same functionality.
o New function: “Compare Audio CD
images” (Tools menu). Since WaveLab can now extract a full
disk image from an audio CD, it can be useful to compare what has been burnt
against what should have been burnt. Basically, if you need to validate
an audio CD burning session, you would proceed as follows: 1) create a
cue-sheet with CD-Image from the Audio Montage (Render dialog). 2) Then open
and burn this CD image. 3) Then extract a CD image from the CD import dialog.
4) And finally use the CD image comparison function. Why comparing CD Images
and not Audio Montages? Because a CD Image is the lowest level representation
of an audio CD, while the Audio Montage can contains multiple elements, such as
plugins, envelopes, etc… which would make the comparison less accurate. The
comparison is “smart” as it takes into account the possible sample offset of
the audio data on a CD (an audio position can only be read with an accuracy of
+- 588 samples, according to the Audio CD specifications).
o Audio selection editor: For Wave: menu “Edit / Select / Edit…”. For Montage: “Tab Edit / menu
Select / Edit audio selection range…”
o New function: “Create Audio Montage from Wave” (Edit menu, when a Wave
window is active).
o New Master Section plugin called “Silence” to add silence at the start
and end of a file. Useful eg. to generate a specific size to be filled by a
reverb tail (reverb must be placed further in the plugin chain). Of course, it
can also be used in the batch processor.
o Sample Attribute dialog: the “name” field now default to the file name.
Moreover, a new button allows to extract the key from the name, if any, to set
the key/detune value. It is also now possible to enter the key by number. It is
now also possible to edit key and velocity range information. Information is
preserved when converting between AIFF and WAV formats.
o AutoSplit: it is now possible to choose either WAV or AIFF format as
file format output.
o AutoSplit: it is now possible to generate BWF (Broadcast Wave Format)
time stamps for each splitted files.
o AutoSplit: it is now possible to generate file names including the MIDI
note number.
o Recording: there is now an option to confirm recording’s discarding, and
another one to confirm the dropped marker names. For this last case, there is
now the possibility to specify a marker delay (eg. if you have pressed the
marker hot-key with a delay of 2 seconds, you can yet create the marker at the
right position, as far you can roughly estimate this delay).
o Recording: it is now possible to save/restore all settings as presets.
o Recording: a new option allows you to choose if you want the recorded
file to open in WaveLab or not (ON by default)
o Audio Montage: Render dialog: new option “Open as new Montage”. The
source montage is rendered as usual into an audio file, but then an Audio
Montage is created, and the possible markers are translated from the audio file
to the montage. Eg. this allows you to take a 96kHz montage with CD markers,
and render it as a 44.1kHz montage ready to be burnt.
o Audio Montage: when rendering one or more clips as individual audio files,
it is now possible to specify some options like “bypass Master Section”,
“Bypass clip plugins”, “Bypass volume/pan envelopes”.
o Audio file open dialog: there is now an option (check box) to open the
audio file(s) directly into an Audio Montage created for the occasion.
o Audio Montage, CD tab: while checking if a CD is valid, if you get the
message: "some clips are not included inside CD tracks.", the
concerned clips now get selected, to ease the search of the mistake.
o Audio Montage: the option “Rename selected clips as their audio files”
has now the option to add a time stamp to the file name.
o Audio Montage: Time format dialog: it is now possible to show time code
as an absolute number of frames (eg. “294788” rather than “01:05:30.38”)
o Audio Montage: CD Tab: new option "Show times relatively to CD's
absolute zero". By default, this is off and times are displayed from the
logical zero (the absolute zero plus 2 seconds).
o Audio Montage: Clip tab, new function “Update BWF time stamps (selected
clips)”. This function only makes sense if each clip refers to a different
audio file, and if each clip refers to the very start of the audio file. Each
audio file which sees its time stamp updated gets open in a window, as reminder
to save it.
o Audio Montage: in the file browser tab, it is now possible to use the
keyboard (a-z) to jump directly to the first file name starting with a given
letter.
o Transport bar: all settings are now global to all windows, if the option
is activated in the preferences (default)
o Preferences: it is now possible to specify an extra VST plugin path. It
is also possible to specify if you want the shared VST plugin folder to be
ignored or not. It is also possible to specify sub-folder names: any plugin
located in these specific sub-folders will be ignored by WaveLab. This is an
easy way to remove unwanted plugins (unused in Wavelab, or conflicting
plugins). Note: if WaveLab can’t start because a plugin crashes during the
start-up, you can press and maintain pressed [Control] and [Shift] while running
WaveLab: no plugin will be loaded and so you’ll be able to adjust the VST path
preferences as described above.
o CD Project: it is now possible to set the ruler size for CD or DVD, and
to define the media size (red indicator on the ruler)
o ASIO: in the preferences, there is now an option to start ASIO streaming
as soon as WaveLab is started. The default option is OFF, that is, ASIO
streaming only starts at the first playback or record request.
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Main bug fixes
o VST Dynamics: this plugin would not work on all systems.
o Audio Montage Full Cloning: a bug that would happen in certain rare
cases.
o Several other bugs
14/10/2002
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New features
o Updated CDR driver, to improve reliability when certain other CDR
drivers are installed on the same system.
o Updated CDR registry definitions (new drives supported, and some fixes
concerning some models, especially Philips drives).
o WaveLab can now open .wav files created by some (rare) applications that
use an alternate .wav header form.
o Improved sonic quality for the UV22HR plugin from Apogee.
o CDs up to 99 minutes can now be burnt (90 min before)
o Importing of CD cue files: 24 bit and 32 bit float audio files are now
supported.
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Main bug fixes
o When rendering a montage, certain DX plugins could sometimes create a
small click at the very end.
o Windows 2000/XP. Burning in “restricted user” mode is now possible,
without any need for a registry fix as before.
o CD Track import: problem fixed when extracting a track only made of
silence.
o Audio Database: the MP3 “bit rate” information was not stored properly.
o SD2 files: certain files were not saved properly.
o Wave editing: there was a small problem when using the keyboard to
adjust a selection.
o Waveform Restorer: using this tool caused empty temporary files to
remain on the hard-drive.
03/09/2002
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New features
o Batch processor: two new plugins: Fade-in and Fade-out. The Fade-out
plugin is a two-pass plugin because it needs to find the file length prior
applying the fade-out (since a plugin in a process chain can change the file
length during processing (eg. Resampler), a file length is “unknown” to a
plugin before this one actually gets and count the samples).
o MP3: WaveLab can now decode MP3-PRO files.
o MP3: Aside the creation of MP3 files using the Lame encoder, WaveLab can
now create Fraunhofer MP3 files and Fraunhofer MP3-PRO files. However, because
of licensing issues, a plugin needs to be purchased for this purpose (cf.
Steinberg web site). However, as a trial, you can perform up to 20 MP3
encodings and up to 20 MP3-PRO encodings. The latest Fraunhofer MP3 technology
is used. Note: all MP3 players are not yet compatible with the MP3-PRO format
(a typical case being the audio played at the wrong pitch).
Concerning the new MP3 encoding parameters:
o In the constant bit rate list, there are these options: mono, stereo,
dual-mono, LC stereo.
o Dual-mono: in this mode, both channels are independently coded; no
profit is taken of a potentially existing correlation between both channels.
This mode is best suited for signals where the channels are independent (e.g. a
bilingual source: English left, French right).
o Stereo: in this mode the encoder is allowed to make use of existing
correlation between the two channels (better compression ratio for stereo
recordings)
o LC stereo: the MP3 PRO format adds the so called Low-Complexity Stereo
technique to the plain MP3 format: this feature is designed to allow stereo
coding even at extremly low bitrates.
o In the advanced parameters, stereo coding area:
o Intensity Stereo: while at lower frequencies the spatial perception of
the human auditory system relies on magnitude and phase of both stereo signals,
at higher frequencies only the energy-time envelopes are evaluated. This forms
the basis for Intensity Stereo coding: at higher frequencies, only directional
and magnitude information is coded for each frequency band.
o Mid/Side stereo codding: the sum and the difference of the left and the
right channel are coded. Usually coding of the difference signal needs only a
fraction of the bits used on the sum channel so more than half the frame’s bits
can be spent on the sum channel.
o Image stereo narrowing: usually, you should allow the encoder to narrow
the stereo image for the lower bitrates. However, in special cases, it might be
useful to disallow narrowing the stereo image.
o Audio CD Burning : WaveLab now checks the presence of a blank CD in the
burning device, before attempting to render the montage to a temporary file.
o Audio CD Report: there is a new preset with times relative to the very
start of the CD plus 150 frames.
o Basic Audio CD and Audio Montage: the “ASCII CD report” that was present
in WaveLab 3.0 has been reintroduced. This function was replaced in WaveLab 4.0
by a more sophisticated report (RTF output), but some users have expressed the
wish to still have a plain ASCII report. Of course, the WaveLab 4.0 Audio CD
report (RTF) has not been removed. “ASCII CD report” templates are stored at
this location: [WaveLab]/ Presets/AudioCdReport/CdCueSheetTemplates/.
o Basic Audio CD: longer comments can be set.
o Audio file comparer: when creating a delta file (differences), this file
now has a 32 bit float resolution (24 bit before).
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Main bug fixes
o Audio CD Burning: updated CD engine. More reliability in contexts where
conflicting drivers can perturb drive communications (eg. Norton AntiVirus).
o The new waveform display mode could generate an error message, in certain
cases, mainly under Windows 98/Me.
o Audio CD Burning with “Audio in pause” mode: in certain cases, a click
could happen at the very end of the CD.
o Audio CD Burning, write dialog: it could happen that the speed selection
box had no default selection. This could cause the burning to fail if not
explicitly selecting a speed.
o Master Section: the red light indicating that effects are active got
switched off whenever you changed the number of visible effect slots.
o Audio Montage, CD Tab: when clicking on the UPC/EAN display to edit the
code value, the display would not be updated after the editing.
o Audio Montage: in some cases, the paste function “Split/Insert &
bind right clips” would not move the right clips of the right amount.
o Meters (eg. FFT): sometimes, assigning a preset to a button would fail.
o UAD-1: plugins can now be used simultaneously in montage clips and in
the MasterSection.
o VSTi plugins are now automatically ignored.
o Audio Montage: when moving a montage together with its relative audio
files to another folder, sometimes the audio files could not be found when
reopening the montage (the relative paths stored in the montage could be
wrong).
o Audio Montage / Audio CD Report: the track Copy setting was inversed. A
cross now means like in the Montage Tab: “Copy protected” (the default
setting).
o Dialogs on second monitor: certain menus would not show up correctly
when displayed on the second monitor of a dual-monitor system.
o VSTDynamics plugin: the previous version caused an audio delay of a few milliseconds.
22/07/2002
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New features
o Updated CD burning driver. Burnproof can now be selected in the
preferences. The option “CD-Eject on success” has now been moved in the general
preferences dialog.
o Waveform display: it is now possible to choose between speed and
accuracy. Earlier versions of WaveLab only used the speed version. The accuracy
option prevents any peak not to be displayed. This option remains fast, but the
speed can decrease when displaying huge audio files with a high zoom ratio (eg.
displaying a whole huge wave in the window scope). This setting can be modified
in the General Preferences, Display tab. The default is “accuracy”.
o MasterSection: the number of visible slots can now be set from 1 to 8.
This can help optimising the screen space. Window layouts remember the slot
number.
o File / Open: If you know that a file format is not supported, select the
new option "Import special audio file". A dialog appears and lets you
specify formatting parameters. You can assign a file extension to the settings,
and save presets. If you select an unknown file from the standard open box, the
“special audio file format” box will show up too. This special file format
feature is also available in the batch processor, to convert multiple files in
one go. This could be used eg. to open SD2 files, if you can’t get these files
to migrate from a Mac system with their header info.
o ToolsOne: 0.1 dB increment steps are now possible.
o Audio CD cue-sheets: the first line of the .cue file was a comment, and
this was not supported by some versions of Nero. No comment is now generated,
for improved compatibility.
o Audio Montage: a clip gain can now be changed by +/- 60 dB (in the clip
list). It was +/- 24 dB before.
o Preferences, File page: three new options:
1.
“Write markers in WAV file header”. If this
option is selected, marker information is written in the .WAV file headers.
This is useful if you need to open the WAV files into another application that
handles markers (eg. Macromedia director). However, a marker change without an
audio change will cause the entire audio file to be rewritten (to rewrite the
file header). Enabling this option does not prevent WaveLab from writing .MRK
files (the marker file format specific to WaveLab). When opening WAV files,
WaveLab will now also recognize marker information.
2.
"Create peak files when writing audio
files” and “Delete peak files when closing audio files”. These options are for
people using WaveLab with thousands of small files and that don’t want to clutter
their disk with peak files (.gpk files). Changing these options will slow file
opening, however (as explained in the dialog).
o Smarter copy of markers: when creating a new audio window from an audio
selection, only the markers strictly included in the selection are copied. The
marker at the very left and the marker at the very right, if any, are ignored.
This is better when copying a selection surrounded by a marker region.
o Audio Montage, CD Tab: new option to display the CD track times
relatively to the first track’s start rather than the montage’ start.
o CD Burning: in previous versions, the pause of the first track had to be
at least 2 seconds (this is a red-book requirement). From this version, WaveLab
now always adds 2 seconds to the pause set for the first track. This procedure
is performed transparently, prior burning. These 2 seconds are required but are
in fact not heard when you play the CD. In most cases, the pause of the first
track should be 0 (as set by you). In the Audio Montage CD Tab, there is now an
option to automatically set the value to 0. Note: certain CD burners don’t like
a pause different than 0 or 1 second for the first track.
o Preferences, Audio Card tab, about the option “Cursor position
correction”. In previous versions, the unit was “miiliseconds”, while now the
unit is “samples”. If you had set a value different than 0, you might have to
set it again.
o Audio Montage CD Burning: it is no longer possible to burn a montage
that refers to a file with a sample rate different than 44100 Hz.
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Main bug fixes.
o Corrected a bug that caused a crash when WaveLab was still for a long
time, after playing back some audio with the level meter window opened.
o Spectralizer: could cause a small click when restarting playback.
o VSTDynamics plugin: when used for a clip, sometimes the section switches
did not light on.
o Batch processing: markers would move to the wrong position when
resampling a file.
o Recording: when selecting both options “Split mode” and “Add to Audio
Montage”, the created clip don’t get anymore a fade in/out (to keep the natural
transition from clip to clip).
o Normalizer dialog: the “Find peak” function did not report values above
0 dB (for 32 bit float audio files).
o ASIO: when starting playback, the first few milliseconds of audio could
sometimes be skipped.
o Recording: when the file size would reach the maximum possible size (2
GB), a warning was displayed, but the recording was lost. Now the recording is
kept.
o CD-Text: sometimes the text entered in the CD-Text dialog was lost.
o File sizes above 2 GB were not properly displayed in file lists.
o Crossfading two mono files (Wave edit windows) could cause a crash.
16/05/2002
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New features
o German Online Help now available.
o AutoSplit: option to trim start/end according to existing markers.
Example of use: remove the useless audio data after a sample loop.
o Auto-Split: the functions “Split at silence” and “Cut Edges” have a new
parameter: “Automatic Level Detection”. This option reads the audio file to
find the noise floor, and later uses this value as an argument during the
splitting process itself. This option also makes the splitting algorithm almost
independent from the file level, ie. low-level audio files are handled as well
as high-level audio files.
o Auto-Split: the function “Split at beats” has a new parameter: “Maximize
level before analysis”. This option does not modify the audio material,
but it analyses a maximized form of the audio signal (peak at 0 dB) rather than
the audio signal in it’s normal level. This allows to handle equally well all
audio files, whatever their peak level. Eg. it’s a good option to handle
low-level audio files. This option makes the splitting process slower because
the files have to be read twice.
o In the general preferences, Editing tab, it is now possible to specify
what the pitch of the A3 key should be (this is normally 440 Hz). All
frequency-to-note conversions will be take into account this reference.
o Preferences, Audio Card tab: now there is a button to call the ASIO
control panel.
o If your computer doesn’t display millions of colors, you now have the
option to cancel the startup warning message.
o Wave window: the Key shortcut “Shift+C” extract the current selection to
a new edit Window. The Key shortcut “Shift+E” saves the current selection. The
Key shortcut “Shift+V” pastes the audio clipboard in Mix mode.
o Preferences, Display tab: it is now possible to display a sample range
of up to 9999 sec when opening an audio file.
o Preferences, Editing tab: it is now possible to set how VST knobs should
be adjusted (circular or linear mode). If this setting gets changed, it only
takes effect when opening new plugins.
o The Audio Card volume slider, present in WaveLab 3.0 and removed in
version 4.0, has been reintroduced. This one is only effective with MME/WDM
drivers. Note: to display this new icon, you must erase the file
WaveLab\Presets\Misc\ToolBars.set so as to reset your toolbar configuration.
o Recording, setting dialog: it is now possible to set whether you want Audio
Monitoring or not.
o Jog and Shuttle: when exiting this mode, the edit cursor now moves
automatically to the last played position. It is also now possible to insert
markers at the focused position (Insert key).
o Master Section : Global Bypass now also works for the post-master slot
(9th slot). This does not apply to the internal dither, though.
o Recording: clicking on the “Discard” button now asks for a confirmation.
o AIFF 32 bit float files are now supported.
o Audio Montage; the CD Tab is not disabled anymore if the Montage’s
sample rate is not 44100 Hz. E.g. this allows you to resample/render a 48000 Hz
montage to a CD-image with a cue-sheet, or to a Basic Audio CD.
o Backup Plan / ISO-Images: no more “OK” message is displayed after saving
an ISO Image. This is useful if you want to prepare overnight a huge backup by
generating a sequence of ISO images (archive spanned over several CDs).
o Master Section: the “active” buttons now have a more contrasted color.
o Audio Montage: in the Clip tab, there is a new function to rename a
group of clips (name + increment number)
o Audio Montage: in the Clip tab, there is a new function to align clips
on a track.
o Audio Montage: the function “Render selected clips as independent files“
now lets you select the destination folder.
o Monitor Window: it is now possible to show and hide automatically the
Monitor window when a background task is executed/finished. This is the case,
for instance, when “Background saving” is activated in the preferences (a new
feature of WaveLab 4.0). To toggle this new Monitor option, use the menu View /
Specialized Windows.
o CD burners: speed above 32x can now be selected for Audio CD burning.
o MP3 Encoding: it is now possible to encode files with a sample rate as
low as 8 kHz. It is also now possible to select a mono output even if the
source file to encode is stereo.
o When entering an UPC code, if only 12 digits are entered (US format),
then a 0 will automatically be inserted at the beginning to be compatible with
the EAN format (13 digits). Moreover, it is now possible to edit the UPC/EAN
code without opening the CD Wizard dialog: simply click on the UPC/EAN text box
in the menu bar (CD Tab of the Audio Montage).
o Batch processor: it is now possible to disable the creation of peak
files (.gpk files). This is done in the batch option menu.
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Main bug fixes.
o Q plugin: too much computer power was used when processing digital
silence.
o SD2 stereo files were not saved correctly.
o Label Designer: fixed bug with the function “Update from Audio Montage”
o When calling the batch processor from the MasterSection, the internal
dither plugin is not inserted anymore in the plugin chain if not activated.
o Custom key commands for Master Section presets did not work.
o The Broadcast Reference Time (File attributes) was not properly saved.
o The system report indicated “Windows 2000” while executed on a “Windows
XP” system.
o When doing “Save as .wav” for a MP3 file, the MP3 encoding dialog was
displayed uselessly.
o MP3 encoding dialog: to make it clearer, the MP3 option “Allow intensity
coding” has been renamed "joint stereo".
o The Return key now works again in the Wave marker dialog.
o Audio Montage: when playback occurred, it was not possible to insert
more than one marker using the marker buttons.
o NaturalVerb: the parameter “Decay” was mistakenly printed “Delay”.
o NaturalVerb: when restarting playback, a short and low-level part of the
recently played samples could be heard.
o ASIO: recording and Live Input would not work on channels other than 1
and 2.
o In some context menus, using the right mouse button could not be used to
select entries.
o FFT analyser: it was often not possible to modify the frequency scale
range.
o ASIO Recording: monitoring a mono signal could create some noise on the
right channel.
o Master Section Presets: the position of the dither plugin (eg. UV22) was
not saved with the presets.
o When saving an Audio file, a positive answer to the question “Do you
want to make a backup” had no effect.
o Master Section, Rendering dialog: with the option “Create specific
file”, the file selector box always defaulted to MP3 files.
o Renaming items in certain tree and list views would now allow to input
the C and W letters.
o Master Section Leveler plugin: it was not possible to edit the right
channel level with the keyboard.
o A few help buttons were not linked to the online help.
o AudioMontage: when burning in mode “Audio in pause”, clips fully
contained inside the first pause range were ignored.
o Windows Layout (menu View): some windows, like Wave and Montage, were
excluded by mistake.
o The inner diameter for a CD label can now be as small as 2 centimeters.
o Some AutoSplit minor problems
o AudioMontage: fix for a problem concerning clip level editing
o Audio file “Save as”: the last used format (eg. WAV, AIFF), etc) is now
remembered from call to call.
o Sample rate conversion from the menu did not shift the file markers.
o AIFF files with a sample rate of 192000 kHz were opened as 44100 Hz
files.
o Some online help topics have been corrected.
o Menus were not displayed correctly when using inverted color settings in
Windows’ display preferences (Control Panel).
o Space characters in ISRC codes were not removed before burning.
o When playing back an audio file, the cursor was not properly displayed
in the overview pane of the window, in certain cases.
o Basic Audio CDs could loose the path of mp3 files.
o There could be 1 or 2 hours of difference with reality when displaying a
file time (file browser windows).
o Record dialog: the automatic file number is now saved/restored when
closing/reopening the dialog.
o Audio Montage: with the time-code format set to 29.97 NDF, it was not
possible to set correctly the time ruler offset.
o PAF dual-mono files had a bad window title.
o MP3 decoding: WaveLab is more tolerant to mp3 files with a mistake in their
header.
o Wave edit window: pasting a selection that included mute markers did not
activate these markers.
o Audio Montage, ducking options: the parameter “Balance clip fade-out”
was ignored.
o Meters: sometimes the meters could stop while playback.
o Converting a Basic Audio CD as an Audio Montage could cause a crash if
the Basic Audio CD contained a mono audio file.
o The Master Section Key command for “Reset to 0 dB” would set the level
to 6.5 dB instead.
o MP2 files could not be open with the Qdesign codec, as it was with
WaveLab 3.0.
o Data CD burning: on certain computer setups, it was not possible to
start burning.
o Batch Processing: when processing thousands of files in a row, the speed
was much decreasing after processing a few thousand files.
o Meter windows were not restored when opening WaveLab from Cubase or by
double-clicking an associated file (eg. audio file).
o Label Editor: a problem with fonts and print preview has been fixed.
o Some other bugs, more difficult to explained, were fixed too.
18/02/2002
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When closing a modified audio window and
choosing to save the file, the file was sometimes not saved.
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A bug concerning automatic colors for audio
windows.
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Certain MP3 files could not be open.
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A graphic compatibility issue with certain
older WaveLab plugins.
13/02/2002
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Updated Online Help.
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Support for additional CDR drives
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Bug fixes:
o The Live Input could crash.
o Grabbing audio CD tracks in mono and converting to an Audio Montage did
not work properly.